When you use the Internet the different tasks you do while online will use up memory of your system. This can slow down your system’s speed thus affecting the speed of your system while using the computer for other tasks.  This can be frustrating if you are multi-tasking while browsing at the same time.

Step 1:

Start Firefox, in the adress bar. Type ‘about:config’ and Press Enter to navigate.

Step 2:

It will ask for your confirmation. Confirm to proceed.

Step 3:

Now the configuration settings of Firefox would appear.

Step 4:

In the ‘Filter’ Field. Type ‘browser.sess’ and double click on ‘browser.sessionhistory.max_entries’ preference Name.

Step 5:

You will see a default value of 50. Input a lesser number so that Firefox will maintain a smaller history and consume low resources.

Step 6:

Now filter ‘browser.cache.memory.enable’ and change the value to ‘true’ bu double-clicking. This will enable browser cache memory.

Step 7:

After that Click Tools in the top menu, then select ‘Options’.

Step 8:

Under ‘Privacy’ tab; uncheck the setting ‘Remember what I’ve download’ under ‘History’. Press OK. This would disable the logging of your downloads and free yet some more memory for other tasks.